Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-11-18
DOMESTIC.

John @. Emo, one of the many American
refugees in Canada, has purchased home
there for $4,000.
The strike on the Louisiana plantations
is confined to the negroes, ten thousand OF
whom have quit work
Hog cholera is causing large losses to
farmers in the northern part OF West Viz
ginia.
A syndicate of New York and Philadel-
phia capitalists have purchased control
ling interest il The NetU York Graphic.
The paper will remain an independent dem
ocratic journal.
An iron cage is being erected for the &C
commodation Of ''Blinky" Morgan IN the
penitentiary at Columbus. In addition, the
distinguished prisoner will receive the at
tentiOn of two extra guards
Thirty-fve cases Of cholera have occurred
on the steamer Alesia, and of these nineteen
have proved fatal.
The stock of the Western Union Telegraph
company has been increased by 100000,
which makes the total $4,000 600
Russian police have discovered another
nihilist plot. They raided the headquarters
of the conspirators, made several arrests,
and found large number OF bombs.
A meeting of county commissioners with
out wrangle Of some sort would be an anon
ally. The committee on public service had
lively time, Friday, discussing resolution
of Comm issiOnsr Hurd touching the fees of
clerks in the courts of record. 1t was intro
duced with rather a personal speech, which
led to an alteration between the mover and
Commissioner Senne, and was finally
passed.
Hereafter vessel-owners at Toledo will be
compelled to pay sailors by the trip, without
reference to time. The rate the Buffalo Is
fixed at $50. and during the fall the run is
frequently made in from tWenty-fOurtO for
ty-eight hours.
The English government has decided to
prosecute all persons who took part in the
proclaimed meeting at Woodtord on Octo-
Der l6. Among them were three members
of parliament and the secretary Of the lord
mayor of London
Friday the duke of Cambridge celebrated
the hftieth anniversary of lls Joining the
British army. The prince of Wales attended
a banquet given in his honor.
Mr.. Balfour, chief secretary for ireland,
met with an enthusiastic reception at Birm-
inghan, Friday. In speech at the town
hall he severely criticised Mr. Gladstone,
references to whom were greeted with boot
ing and derisiye cries.
Two fires occurred Sunday morning at
Kansas City. A negro was arrested on sus-
piciOu of having committed arson.
The Cherokee council meets today at
Iahlequah. Indications are that peace will
prevail and Mayes will be inaugurated chief.
A man named AIcHugh rendered an ines
Unable service to the public at Berwick,
Pennsylvania, by utting to flight a gang of
tramps who were abusing an innocent
peddIer. McHugh attacked the rascally
Migrants with pistol, and, though most OF
them got away, one was killed and two were
wounded.
The ministers at Des Moines, Sun day
made an earnest appeal from their pulp1ts IN
behalf of the prohibition law. AT Fargo,
Dakota the prohibition campaign has been
carried on with extraordinary vigOr, and the
success of the movement is predicted.
At a meeting held in Philadelphia in hon
or Of the peace commissioners from Great
Britain, resolutions were adopted asking the
president to incorporate IN his next message
to congress a suggestion embOdy1ng the sen
timsnt of the commission.
Fires are raging in the timber and on the
prairies IN the vicinity of CentraLia, Illinois,
and the people of the tewn are alarmed be
cause the water supply IS very limited, and
there is no way to eNtlngulsh the flames.
The burning of a Touring -mill at Albert Lea,
Minnesota, Sa urday night, caused loss OF
$751; 600. During last week much damage
was done by forest fires near Anna, Illinois,
and at Hazeiton and Decker, Indiana.
George Ward, a desperate Chicago crimi-
nal. escaped from he jail at Huntington,
Pennsylvania, Sunday night, by boring
hole through the wall and letting himself
down by a rope made from bed-clothes.
Destructive forest fires are raging at vari-
Gus points in Illinois as well as IN Ohio,
Indiana, and Nest Virginia.
D. F. Anderson, a contractor and builder
er of Chicago, made an assignment, Mon
day, to NJ. K. Rlggle. James Mack, a
lum Der dealer # Cincinnati, has failed.
His assets and liabilities are both estimated
at 100000.
Judge Jameson denied the motion for an
arrest of judgment IN the case OF the SIX
boodlers, il Chicago, Monday, and sentenc-
ed the defendants to two years 1mprlson-
ment at Joliet. The prisoners were remand
ed to Jail, and the case will now be carried
to the appellate court.
At the regular session OF the Chicago city
council, last evening" Alderman Gale
introduced an ordinance providing for the
construction and maintenance OF ga6-WOrks
by the city. The council adjourned without
discussing the matter.
e,rge Mills Rogers, a son of the late
Judge Rogers, has been appointed as istant
United States attorney for the Northern
district of Illinois.
The first truss of the bridge across the
Hudson at POughkeepsie, which was put in
position, Monday, is the largest and heav1-
est steel truss in the world. 1t is 525 feet
long, 81 feet deep, and 35 feet wide.
Owing to the protracted drought in south
ern Indiana and Illinois, wells have given
out and streams have dried mp. so that IN
some places people are compelled to 60 s=v-
eral miles for drinking water.
1t is thought that the men who were
lynched for the murder of the Rev. Mr.. Ry-
an in ROane county, West Virginia, were in
nocent Of the crime, and efforts are now be-
ing made to bring Che lynchers to justice.
The friendly attitude assumed by Count
the Austrian prime minister, to-
ward Prince Ferdinand has given great Of
tense TO the Russians.
The steamer, City IF Chester, from New
York, reported a very stormy voyage upon
her arrival at Queenstown She encountered
a terrific gale that lasted three day.
The receipts of wheat at Minneapolis dur
ing last week were greater by 100000 bush
els than those OF the corresponding week of
last year.
A Negro DesE erado Killed.
KANSAS CITY, November 9-Policeman
Bray shot and l. ortally wounded George
Grant, colored, on st. Louis avenue near
Liberty street at o'clock this evening.
Grant was runnlug away with a bundle of